"SteveB" wrote in message
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"RicodJour" wrote in message
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On Jan 26, 3:10 am, "SteveB" wrote:
"marson" wrote in message

On the other had, judging from the tone of your post, they may have
smelled that you are a jerk and charged accordingly. That's what I
would have done.

Jerk? Hardly. Just someone who can smell a rat. I'm a jerk for asking
him
to come into my home, and do work for money? And then I'm a jerk for
not
paying a lot of money for a little work?

No, you're a jerk because you never had the intention of hiring the
guy in the first place.

For future reference, life is too short to work with crappy
materials. As another, more perspicacious poster mentioned, it's a
good idea to use your 'cost' savings to upgrade the materials.
Otherwise you're just a hack hacking on your own house.

R

Thank you for your erroneous assessment of the situation. I would have
hired him had he not been so high. And FYI, we did multiple upgrades.
And still came in quite a bit under budget.

Steve



There are two versions of "too high":

1) More than you wanted to pay
2) More than you think he should make.

The first is reasonable. It's an opinion. The second is vapor and can safely
be ignored. I'm not saying you claimed #2. I'm just pointing out that there
are multiple variables.